Tank McNamara by Bill Hinds for January 31, 2014

Got to be Dennis Rodman, because for the most part, the sports jerks of 2013 were only jerks. They didn’t consort with insane Communist dictators with giant armies who starve their own people between testing nuke-tipped missiles.

For the 40 year award, how about Jerry Sandusky?

My favorite comment about the mess at Penn State is that they should have left the statute of Paterno up, but turned it so that it was looking the other way.

Richie Incognito 2013. And Don King 40 year.

Mike Rice

Has anyone nominated Dennis Rodman yet? Because I wanna nominate Dennis Rodman.

I’d go with Pete Rose for 40year award. However long it’s been, his name keeps coming up, along with his crime. Can’t say that about Sandusky – who doesn’t deserve any award even if it’s ignominious. What he did, to my mind, falls beyond the bounds of something we should joke about.

For 2013: Luis Suarez (soccer, Uruguay & Liverpool).

For the past 40 years: Matti Nykanen (ski jumping, Finland).

I remember the old “Sports Jerk of the week” website, and Nykanen’s name kept coming up again and again. He was a jerk for over a decade before the internet was invented, and he has continued to be a jerk subsequent to the site’s demise. Nykanen gets my vote for the great range and variety of his jerky actions.

So tankmcnamara.com re-directs here. How do you make the nomination? Just post in a comment? If so, I nominate Jerry Sandusky and Joe Paterno for Joint Jerk of the past 40 years.

So tankmcnamara.com re-directs here. How do you make the nomination? Just post in a comment? If so, I nominate Jerry Sandusky and Joe Paterno for Joint Jerk of the past 40 years.

How do you do it? Read panel 4!

I know a few people have actually shown up to collect their “Razzies” (the Oscar award parodies), but has anybody ever shown up to collect the Sports Jerk of the Year award?

Tank, we should live so long!

I nominate Howard Cosell for the sports jerk of the last 40 years, it’s hard to beat howard unless you are a Penn Stae fan.

Lance Armstrong. ‘Nuf said. (Sandusky is a felon, he’s in a totally different category. Would diminish the award to give it to him.)

Pete Rose for the 40 year award. ARod this year.

I’ve mentioned Don King for the Lifetime Jerk Award, but how could I have forgotten about Al Davis? For 2013? Aaron Hernandez.

Some lowlights of Matti Nykanen’s career:

*His 1983 Sports Illustrated interview, when he hurled insults and curses at the reporter, and threw a shoe across a room.

*His getting temporarily kicked off the Finnish ski jumping team for trashing an Austrian disco as part of a victory celebration.

*Fed up with Finnish ski jumping officials, he threatened to move to Copenhagen and become a Swedish citizen. Geography is not a strong suit.

*He once created such a disturbance at a restaurant that authorities needed tear gas to subdue him.

*His short post-retirement career as a stripper.

*He once stabbed his opponent after losing a finger-pulling competition.

It would take much to long to detail either his political career or his marital troubles. And I’ve only started to scratch the surface of what he’s done.

Bobby Riggs!!!!! that’s my nomination!!!!.With his mouth – he deserved to lose and be taken down a few notches.